Advanced M. S.-DOS Programming: The Microsoft Guide for Assembly Language and C. Programmers (Paperback)

by Ray Duncan (Author)

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This guide addresses key programming topics, including character devices, mass storage, memory management and process management. The reference section details each MS-DOS function call and interrupt and the BIOS interrupts. New and expanded material in this edition includes, system functions for all current versions of MS-DOS, ROM BIOS information for fixed disk, EGA, VGA, PC/AT and PS/2, version 4.0 of the Lotus/Intel/Microsoft expanded memory specification, writing "well-behaved" versus "hardware-dependent" applications, and compatibility considerations for OS/2. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S. (September 1, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0914845772
• ISBN-13: 978-0914845775
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,843,275 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Real Review, March 11, 2000

By	Eric Franklin (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced MS-DOS Programming: The Microsoft Guide for Assembly Language and C Programmers (Paperback)

OK, the two other jokers have had their fun. Seriously, Ray Duncan's "Advanced MS-DOS Programming" is a must-have reference for the Assembler INT 21h system services for MS-DOS based PC's. This is not a "How-To" book, but rather a complete reference manual. If you're trying to learn 8086 assembler, I'd suggest Peter Norton and John Socha's "Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book For The IBM PC", but keep Ray Duncan's book handy for the details.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It has helped me out a lot whenever I do advanced DOS apps., June 1, 2000

By	Ole Drews Jensen (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is definitely THE BOOK if you want to do some cool programming in DOS. No matter if you find yourself in the DOS Debugger or in Pascal or C++, you can easely do very advanced things by playing around with the interrupts. This book shows you excactly what you need.

5.0 out of 5 stars Advanced programming (for its time)... but good for historic purposes, July 30, 2006

By	J. Page "tdrss" (Southwest USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've been a DOS user for decades (? - yeah, decades...), and I've always wondered "How were those commands written?" Doing my own small utility commands in assembly, I could never reach the level of "code tightness" that the DOS prompt displayed... "Why is my COPY command 50K larger than their DOS COPY command?!?"

This book showed me why... Ray Duncan's book must have been the DOS programming bible during its time. For those wanting to learn assembly, and the art of writing good programs, this is a definite buy - since DOS is nearly extinct, the price of the book will be minimal. If you're just starting with assembly, this will give you a reason to write ASM, with actual examples that work.

DOS may be dead(?) but there are still lessons to be learned from its code.